Essays & Opinion
How to Really Look Good Naked
I was walking down Regent Street a few weeks ago, and as you often do in that part of London, I saw a minor celebrity. In real life, Gok Wan, host of the UK makeover […]
Month: August 2008
Essays & Opinion
Winning the Ultimate Popularity Contest
Only a nation that encourages its citizens to vote for its public prosecutors and prom queens could deliver the ultimate in popularity contests. The USA is nearing the completion of another four-yearly cycle to pick […]
Essays & Opinion
No Objection to Objectification
A relatively minor news story grabbed my attention this week. Or rather, I noticed it briefly, and then kept remembering it as I found a lot of examples of the hypocrisy that underpins the supposedly […]
comedy
If Zombies Were Real…
We live in a pretty strange society. Walk up to a stranger at random and start talking about habeas corpus and they will probably think you are talking in a foreign language (which I suppose […]
Essays & Opinion
How Lettuce-eating Cyclists Kill our Planet
Did the title grab your attention? Cannot believe it is true? It IS true. The dots are there, people just refuse to join them up because of fashion. I need to do more work on […]